The Buddhist Perspective on Cause and Condition

About the Author
Venerable Master Hsing Yun
Venerable Master Hsing Yun was born in Jiangdu,
Jiangsu Province, China, in 1927. Tonsured under
Venerable Master Zhikai at age twelve, he became a
novice monk at Qixia Vinaya School and Jiaoshan
<strong>Buddhist</strong> College. He was fully ordained in 1941, and
is the 48th Patriarch of the Linji (Rinzai) Chan
School.
He went to Taiwan in 1949 where he undertook
the revitalization of Chinese Mahayana Buddhism on
the island with a range of activities novel for its time.
In 1967, he founded the Fo Guang Shan (Buddha's
Light Mountain) <strong>Buddhist</strong> Order, and has since established
more than a hundred temples in Taiwan and
on every continent worldwide. Hsi Lai Temple, the
United States Headquarters of Fo Guang Shan, was
built outside Los Angeles in 1988.
At present, there are nearly two thousand monks
and nuns in the Fo Guang Shan <strong>Buddhist</strong> Order. <strong>The</strong>
organization also oversees sixteen <strong>Buddhist</strong> colleges;
- 44 -